BlackBerry Executives to present at the 2017 Milken Institute Conference

The Milken Institute Global Conference for 2017 takes place in Los Angeles on April 30 - May 3, and this year, as in years past, there will be several BlackBerry Executives presenting. As highlighted on the Inside BlackBerry blog, those in attendance will get to hear from Executive Chairman and CEO John Chen, BlackBerry Chief Evangelist Mark Wilson as well as BlackBerry Chief Operating Officer Marty Beard and BlackBerry President, Global Sales Carl Wiese on a wide array of topics.

At next week's 2017 Global Conference, leading global experts, including five BlackBerry executives, will come together to tackle the economic, technological, and business challenges related to this year's topic of "Building Meaningful Lives."

Our Chief Operating Officer Marty Beard will be participating in a dinner sponsored by Toyota on the topic, "Will Technology Outpace Human Intelligence?" James Kuffner, CTO of Toyota Research Institute, will host the dinner.

BlackBerry President, Global Sales Carl Wiese and I will also be in attendance at Milken.

Those of you who are in town should swing by the Valet Area of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which is hosting the conference, as we'll be demoing a BlackBerry software powered Jaguar XJ (concept car).

Michael Milken went to jail convicted of misdeeds by the US Securities and Exchanges Commission.

"Milken was indicted for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989 in an insider trading investigation. As the result of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to securities and reporting violations but not to racketeering or insider trading. Milken was sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $600 million, and permanently barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission. His sentence was later reduced to two years for cooperating with testimony against his former colleagues and for good behavior.[3]

His critics cited him as the epitome of Wall Street greed during the 1980s, and nicknamed him the "Junk Bond King". (Wikipedia) "

Read more than WikiPedia on Milken. While some of what he did was questionable he ultimately targeted because he created a market for junk that the government didn't have control over. When you do something that the government doesn't control they will find a way to take you down.

He did much worse and got 10 inside. He flipped on other doers in exchange for reduction to 2 year sentence, but is banned from any part in the financial industry for LIFE... he set up foundations and think-tank & I would wonder if these are shams to circumvent the ban... like the Clinton's, a lot of money from foundations & such can find its way into boss's pockets... the guy invented junk bonds... notice the moniker "junk"...he was (& likely remains) a bad actor... speaking there for JC&Cie will rub off... the question is which side will be besmirched by the association...